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Show NOTABLE WAR SCENES, WILL BESHOWN HEEIE Arranged by The Tribune, at Salt Lake Theater, Opening Monday TAKEN ON FIRING LINE Pictures Are Authentic and Do Not Show the Slightest Slight-est Bias. Camera Men Risked Lives for Pictures On the battle lines of the armies ; of Europe there are men who take risks that even the BOldlers them i selves shxliik from For the satisfaction satis-faction of recording the facts of the war the stones of the battles In a form that will be authentic photograijhers-and motion picture ; operators have stood In the line of ' charges, worked under a haol of bursting shell Because of their v ' heroism the world is able to see the ! actual horror heroism and sorrow : of the great conflict across the sea ' And see it seated comfortably in a theater The first of the pictures ; taken by these men are now in the United States The Salt Lake Trib : i una has arranged to have fhem shown at the Salt Lake theater Monday and Tuesday April 5 and 6 S nee the opening of the war there has been much dissatisfaction over the meager and at t mes unrel able reports that have emanated from the war zone Correspondents honeBt in purpose but swajed perhaps by subconscious bias have at times sent out confl cting re ports The strict censorship directed by men unfamiliar with news values, has resulted in the mut lation of the stones by the newspaper men so that at times they are almost worthless to their papers The American press has been fotced to depend largely on the official reports of the warring powers These are often confl cting Photographers Fortunate. The heads of the lighting nations have explained that they censor the reports lest ntormation oi vame snoum leak into the hands of the enemy and f nally prohib ted correspondents from the battle zones. The few permitted with the armies are practically power less W th the photographers how ever it was different Jach nation realized the alue of the films as his toncal records They also knew that as the pictures could bo Bhown only-after only-after the events they depicted had oc cuned they could give no rnlorma Hon of a.lue to the enemy So they told the men who wanted to risk their lives to go ahead ' Several of these photographers hae already paid for their tementy with their lives But their work remains. S-nt by Newspapers Practi ally all of the men were news paper photographers. They were sent to tho front by newspapers. Their work is the property of the press of the United States and the leading papers of the country have un ted to give the people a chance to see the war In New York the Sun showed the pictures In Carnegie hall and the great aud torlum was packed to the doors at eery performance for nearly & we pic In Philadelphia the Eenmg Ledger bowed the films with the same result In Boston Buffalo Chicago Cn natl, I rovidence bt Louib and prac tlcally every large city in the country the pictures have been shown under the auspices of the leading papers. Know ng the value of the pictures the Salt Lake Tnb ne arranged for them to be shown n Sjalt Lake Pictures Are Neutral And tho pictures are neutral They are not l Ke tne proaici oi mo stud o stage! to please Bon e faction or race Thcv were taken where the shelh were fl) ng In the German 1 nes a photographer stood before a charging French rcgi nent to fil them as the Gorman g us lec mated them in the lines of Iho all es men were similarly occur ed Often the corema men sta tioned thcmBelves between the f res and f In ed both s les at once The result 1 a complete and autl en tic record of tho war us far as t has gone and a far a the camera nen ere alle to tako it Vnd the Salt lake Tr bune managon ent feels tl at the people of Salt Lake should see t le onl authont c nfall lie record of tie world s groatcl conflict |